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Legate

//ˈlɛɡɪt// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
  2. 2
    A legacy or bequest. obsolete
  3. 3
    a member of a legation wordnet
  4. 4
    An ambassador or messenger.

    "Moſt great and puiſant Monarke of the earth, Your Baſſoe wil accompliſh your beheſt: And ſhew your pleaſure to the Perſean, As fits the Legate of the ſtately Turke."

  5. 5
    The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.

    "Legate, I had the news last night—my cohort ordered home By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome."

Verb
  1. 1
    To leave as a legacy. transitive
  2. 2
    past participle of legate form-of, obsolete, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English legat(e), from Old French legat, from Latin lēgātus, substantivized from the perfect passive participle of lēgō (“to bequeath, send as envoy”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin lēgātus, perfect passive participle of lēgō (“to bequeath, leave as legacy, legate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin lēgātum (“a legacy”), substantivized from the neuter forms of the perfect passive participle of lēgō (“to bequeath, leave as legacy, legate”). Doublet of legacy.

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